Contrary to Sullivan's claims, he's not 'lowering costs'

Sen. Dan Sullivan is campaigning with wealthy Trump lackeys in Alaska, claiming that they are working together to lower energy costs.

What are you going to believe? The $4.94-per-gallon price at the gas pump in major Alaska cities? The electric bills in Interior Alaska that show the highest rates ever? The $5,000 bill that many homeowners are facing to fill up with heating oil?

Or the two white-haired rich guys boasting about “lowering costs” as they stride out of the Alaska Energy Authority to try to get votes, dressed in white shirts in their cute state-supplied embroidered black vests?

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Will the Fairbanks News-Miner survive?

The new board of the Fairbanks newspaper—the selection of which should require real community outreach—is going to have to wrestle with big questions such as whether the print publication should be ended entirely and how to improve its online presence and generate more revenue.

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Leaky vessel for pipeline dream

The experience of the past year-and-a-half points to a series of red flags that went unheeded by Alaskans.

The uncomfortable truth is that Glenfarne was never the right company to plan and execute one of the world’s largest construction projects.

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Alaska LNG promoters counted on Trump, who didn't deliver

What Glenfarne and the “Build the Line!” propaganda campaign want Alaskans to forget about are the extravagant promises of 2025 that Donald Trump would make the Alaska LNG pipeline a reality.

Alaska’s Republican governor and Republican Congressional delegation claimed for months that Trump would get Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and other nations to pay for Alaska’s largest construction project and get it built in record time.

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Alaskans will side with Canada in Trump's idiotic trade war

Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Nick Begich the Third have had nothing to say about Donald Trump’s latest ill-conceived attack on our Canadian neighbors.

The two candidates should be calling on Trump to stop destroying the relationship with our nation’s most important ally.

Because of our location, no state has a more important reason to maintain good relations with Canada than Alaska. You think Trump ever gets that message from Sullivan and Begich?

They might as well be Natalie Harp for all of their ability to speak truth to the president.

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